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The Seven Day Switch by Kelly Harms
3.0

content warnings:
Spoilerheterocissexism, misogynistic language, ableist language, body image issues, mention of borderline disordered eating, mention of precanon parent death, mention of bullying, anaphylaxis (peanut allergy)


I definitely wouldn't have picked this up if it wasn't an Amazon First Reads title (and the most remotely-appealing sounding one of the bunch), but it was a decently entertaining read. The whole premise is very cishet-middle-class soccer/ softball mom, which isn't inherently bad but does mean that — apart from a few brief discussions of childhood poverty from one POV protagonist and a handful of race-related comments from a secondary character of color — there's an underlying level of unexamined privilege. While I (mostly) applaud the ultimate message, which you can probably guess from the synopsis and some basic knowledge of how such books tend to go, it's certainly not revolutionary and is even a bit simplistic, given all the drama leading up to the epiphany.